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    EDUCATIONAL YOUTH CONFERENCE "EDUCATION AS PRECONDITION FOR DEVELOPMENT" IS HELD IN TSAKHKADZOR

    Noyan Tapan
    Jun 13 2007

    TSAKHKADZOR, JUNE 13, NOYAN TAPAN. The educational youth conference,"
    Education as Precondition for Development", took place on June 8-10
    in Tsakhkadzor, which was organized by the Armenian Round Table
    Interchurch Charitable Fund of the World Church Council (WCC). About
    80 young people, representatives of the RA National Assembly,
    the RA Ministry of Education and Science, the National Institute
    of Education, the Christian Upbringing Center of the Mother See of
    Holy Etchmiadzin, different diocesan institutions and youth unions
    of the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Round Table Partner NGOs,
    as well as guests from Georgia, Belarus and the Ukraine took part
    in the conference. This was reported to Noyan Tapan by the Armenian
    Round Table Interchurch Charitable Fund of the World Church Council.

    The meeting opened with the Lord's Prayer, then Bishop Pargev
    Martirosian, Head of the Artsakh diocese, Chairman of the Board of
    Trustees of the WCC Armenian Round Table Fund made a welcome and
    blessing speech for those present and attached importance to this
    initiative, underlining the necessity of education.

    Afterwards, Karen Nazarian, Executive Director of the Round Table
    Fund, greeted the participants of the conference and touched upon
    the necessity of coordinating the efforts of different state bodies,
    the church, and NGOs in the sphere of education, considering this
    conference already an important step in that direction.

    Two subjects were chosen as the leading titles for the three-day
    meeting.

    Educational reforms: the present and future of the educational system,
    cooperation prospects of the church, state and civic society stressing
    extra-school education and Education and the value system in the
    formation and realization process of a person.

    The meeting was held by Priest Vahram Melikian, member of the Board
    of Trustees of the WCC Armenian Round Table Fund.

    In the morning of June 10 the participants of the conference took
    part in the Sunday divine service in the Kecharis monastery, then they
    visited St. Katoghike church in Jrvezh in the diocese of Kotayk where
    they were acquainted with the activities of the church's social center.
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